skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>I wish Spotify would let me "upgrade" individual albums to purchases. Like I'd still pay for my monthly sub, but if I particularly like a track or artist, I could buy that album for a discounted price (like $5, ideally) and the artist would get like 95% of that revenue.

I don't get it, your proposal is that you want to be able to buy albums for less the usual price of $15-20 or whatever? Why would an artist want to do that? Or is the idea basically a tipping function where you "buy" an album for $5, but don't get anything in return?
I used to think like this too, but I now categorize this as "making easy things easier" and I try to focus only on things that "make hard things easier". Now the main thing I value is flexibility, and that's mainly achieved by mainly spending my time in a programmable environment (the shell), and a CLI editor like Vim fits the most smoothly into this approach.

To give an example, let's say you want to make pull requests for an API change across several interdependent repos (e.g., an API change in a framework). So you want to you want to do a find and replace in each repo, then push the changes to a branch, and create a pull request for each one. This can be achieved entirely from the command line, making it really easy to repeat across all the repos that need to be updated.

(With all the above said, I do use most LSP features, like live error checking and autocomplete, but if I were forced to choose, I would give that up before I give up the flexibility of a programmable environment.)
>reliable TV or movie critics

>critical drinker
Ah, so that’s the technicality. Contractors built components based on existing apps and Figma used that for training. It’s one step removed, but, like, it didn’t not happen.
I don't know about Udemy or Skillshare, but I gave up on Coursera a long time ago because almost everything on there seems to be of a "X for non-X-majors" variety. They tend assume no prerequisites and are generally super watered down.
I feel pretty uncomfortable dumping A/C privileged material into ChatGPT. Am I wrong? Or are you just limiting this to non-privileged material always?
Vanilla VLC still feels like the best user experience to me.
Gather and label are two wildly different things that change the entire context. They aren't saying go find this stuff for us, they are saying if people upload it or you find it in the data then, label it as such.
Looks pretty cool!

I had hard time finding people beyond this company either on LinkedIn or Web site itself. Can I trust my data to those who wish to remain nameless ?
Thanks for such a nice explanation!
"could be a millionnaire immediately" is precisely the kind of techbro ulterior motive that creates these situations in the first place.
The state railways have large exited night trains as a form of transport, due to economics, although it’s a much more sustainable form of transportation compared to aviation.

Since Europe has a liberalized market in the rail sector, some startups are trying to fill the gap.

European sleeper operates a night train on the route Brussel-Amsterdam-Berlin-Prague, using old rented rolling stock.

I’m involved with Luna Rail (in Berlin), which is trying a more technical approach around rolling stock design to improve unit economics to make Night trains profitable.

There’s also a startup in the US, dreamstar, whose primary effort appears to be about getting track rights for now (something that’s not such a big concern in Europe - here the barrier is rolling stock).
Took me only ten minutes to tweak the config to my liking and recreate my color scheme from iterm.

I’ve been using Ghostty for a day now and it simply works. Smooth, seamless and perfectly integrated to the point where this should just be the default terminal in macOS.

P.S.:
If you want to port your iterm color scheme, set:

window-colorspace = display-p3

for the colors to match.

(And bold-is-bright = true if you set this option in iterm)
Strange, I don't usually hear Austrians complain when they get paid 3x for the same job a person does in Poland.
End names are optional in Ada, so "fixing" that is just a style guide away. Meanwhile, Scala 3 added named `end` to help with long blocks on its indentation syntax.
Why isn't there a Google flights for trains? Do the operators hoard their data?
Is a matter of time until it will be enshitified, and they come back…
YouTube Music definitely has just standard YouTube videos uploaded by random people. It's one of the only reasons I use YouTube Music - listening to vinyl rips of things that were never released in other formats.
Because browser vendors refused to implement XHTML properly, and then Mozzilla folks pushed for HTML5 outside W3C, Web freedom, what an irony than now Google plays Simon says.
I'm always amazed that Microsoft never gets included in the "Big Tech" that needs to be reigned in and broken up. I can only assume that Microsoft donates big to certain causes, or participates in the right dark money PACs.
It's an understandable rule, and you can definitely just download the binary from alire.ada.dev and add it to $PATH but with such a harsh stigma around how difficult it is to get the toolchain set up, GetAda follows the precedent of Rust, where you can grab the toolchain via "curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://sh.rustup.rs | sh" (thanks to Rustup).

It was received positively at the time:

Show HN: Getada: rustup-like installer for Ada's toolchain/package manager 194 points | 115 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40132373
The study appears to omit handedness as a potential factor influencing performance.
> The irony? I got a job offer before I even finished building it. More on that later

Nothing succeeds like success. If you are on n attempt, and you are geared up for what you will do for n+2, usually the problem surrenders its self on n.
I like the idea of LSPs and have tried switching to Vim/Neovim/Emacs a few times, but Jetbrains' refactoring/intellisense is just so much better imo
The government has no right to destroy property (by any method) of private citizens who are flying drones when there is no evidence of illegality or of them being a credible threat.

To say "flying a drone makes it a credible threat" to say "drones are illegal," which someone is free to take up as their legislative priority.
Ports of Call is a game many have a fond relationship to, something we’ve seen during Retrogamingpappa’s somewhat informal (but also completely official) Norwegian Championship for Amiga games, where it did very well against pretty tough competition. Several of us at Spillhistorie.no actually thought it would win the whole thing.
Estlink 2 is a power cable, not data.
And it's not just in programming-related jobs either. Parts of industry and the blue collar market are shitting themselves in Germany right now.

Two people I know have been let go (pumps and wood sectors resp.). Another (metal construction) is getting barely more than minimum wage. There's only one dude (chemical engineer) who is doing well (nearing 100k at 5 years work experience). The others are getting by.

Politicians are still complaining about Fachkräftemangel, skilled labor shortage, but it's really a wage slave shortage.
> They break into more conventional dialogue for the recitative sections (a tradition that went out of style with Verdi.)

The comic operas of Gilbert and Sullivan were contemporary to Verdi's work and still feature lots of dialogue, so they are very approachable. You still won't be able to use your phone, though - you'll be too busy laughing!

My recommendation for an introduction would be the 1982 Canadian production of The Mikado by the Stratford Festival. It is currently available in its entirety on YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbpUzCFCy_8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MK6y6n98O00
While agents and HR may be looking to match the bare requirements, the hiring manager is likely also looking for “alpha” the stuff that escapes formal requirements. My hires are usually those that passes the base reqs and provide that unique something that the cover letter seems to reveal.
Thanks a lot for the offer, I just emailed you :)
That's just how shipping works. Non of those countries are the actual owners or operators.
Russia does not use conscription. All those troops volunteered to be there. At least that is what leader Vlad is claiming. Are you disagreeing with the Dear Leader?
Footnotes and references are the equivalent and imo often lead to more robust sources.
Reading comments on this article makes me want to wash my eyes.
Someone else? My brother the US median income is miles ahead of everywhere else.
That’s seems like it should be true, and it would be great if it was.

But in my many years of experience working with Jr engineers, I have found no substitute other then practice guided by someone more Sr (who has good taste).

There are just too many different situations and edge cases. Everything is situational. You can come up with lists of factors to consider (better versions of this post often have them), but no real firm rules.
I'd also like this.

I just want a ballpark on the orders of magnitude between alternatives so I can make simple swaps.

The most popular three brands of each food category (canned black beans, soy milk, hummus, etc.) would be a nice start.

On the other hand, it also seems like the wrong fixation for most people. Most people should probably be making swaps away from things like junk food and saturated fat before they invest energy in minmaxing the nanograms of pfas in their butter. It would suck if it introduced more chaos and confusion into health/food discourse.
This is precisely the tepid, data-driven "future of entertainment" that the genAI boosters are desperately trying to sell. Remember the hubbub about that ridiculous AI Seinfeld stream? Turgid LLM nonsense, but hyped to the skies by people who presumably haven't watched Seinfeld and have no clue what makes it a funny and iconic sitcom.
I’d guess possibly a majority would migrate there if given the opportunity to do so safely, legally and without abandoning immediate family though
Doesn't seem to compare to human generated tests. I'm guessing that comparison is mine too favorable.
How is that not true, though? Claiming it’s Ukraines fault for the war is absurd, but joining NATO was always going to be seen as a provocative act. It’s geopolitics and there’s never black and white lines.
Spotify has albeit unofficial headless client for linux. None of other services I know does. It implements the same interface as smart speakers so can be controlled remotely by any gui client.
Not really, all the Google apps get five star ratings from all the spam accounts to try and make them seem more legitimate.

Neither major app store has done anything about ratings spam for a decade and the system is entirely useless.
Wow; this is amazing. I was looking into who makes their seats for business/first (I usually assume it's Rockwell Collins but it might not be) and was shocked to see how old their product is on this aircraft. The business class seats look like those from the 90s!
It's normal. IIRC Early America didn't have Copyright or other protections, they were added later once it was making its own works and had skin in the game.
Yes! This was the first "lisp" I ever used, back in the very early 90's. It was still part of Cakewalk in the windows releases at that time and was really Cakewalk's secret weapon.

With the Ableton Live Notes API, enabling something similar is one of the things I plan on adding to Scheme for Max this year.

Thanks for the tip about who wrote it, I will look him up!
IMHO that is a failed example of "Chuck Moore's stuff".
He went down a rabbit hole to an extreme level because that's what he does.
His earlier CPU experiments like the 4016 and Shboom were excellent examples of ultra-RISC architectures.

The thing Chuck explored, related to abstraction, which I don't see much in conventional machines was reducing calling overhead. (1 cycle call and intrinsic return on many instructions ie: free return)

Some of the decisions we make today have a lot to do with what happens at the hardware level when we add abstraction. It just costs more than we are prepared to pay so it is avoided ... but for the wrong reason.
Makes sense why I've not seen gates in many places but metro networks and high speed.

I agree that there will always be spots where the rails can be reached. As with many parts of human behavior, if there is more friction less people will do the thing. Since there are many instances where this is a temporary state and seeking and finding help can always be difficult I think creating that frictions is also worthwhile. Making sure people are prevented from feeling suicidal and being happier is something I also fully support.
Funnily enough, the “Alhambra Palace” is a hotel that opened at the beginning of the XX century, while the “Alhambra” is the monument from the medieval age.

The Alhambra is not a palace, well it was actually a castle (the meaning of Alhambra is “red castle”). It had a palace inside but it was a fortification mainly.

Of course as Boabdil surrended the city of Granada to the Catholic Monarchs (Isabel and Fernando) in 1492, the Nazari dinasty did not enjoyed the palace many years.
That's just reminded me of an article I read recently about "What We Do In The Shadows", where Clement/Waititi originally thought that the idea was a ten minute sketch ("vampires, but they're stupid") that they managed to stretch out into a whole film. Of course, then they stretched it out even further into 6 seasons of a series (not counting Wellington Paranormal).
Consider the other side of that equation. Idle hands are the devil's playground. Too many men with no future and nothing to do are known to start revolutions.
It will be interesting to see a SaaS that applies to jobs come up.

I wonder if the application process will switch up in the near future to people posting their profiles for then company recruiters/AI to reach out and contact since if they post a job they just get 10k automated applications.
>I myself have had a difficult time landing an interview over the last year despite having two decades of experience.

Unfortunately many employers see that as a minus, not a plus.
> If I can't see the books I move on

Are you saying that as a software developer, or you work with other things?
IIRC, there is for Europe a directive which requires 60/65% (?) of the force within a crash must be absorbed by the frame/chassis. It came into action around 2015, IIRC.
Costco Denies Shareholder Demand to Back Down from DEI Hiring
One thing that non-Java devs don't get is just how much better the tooling is for Java than literally any other language.

Most jetbrains IDEs I find are indeed comparable to vscode plug-ins and a huge glob of vim plug-ins for most languages, especially the dynamically typed ones where the amount of static analysis you can do is already quite limited.

But for IntelliJ, literally no other editor comes close. Extract method/variable, all the "hey you wrote java 6 but it's 2024 that those 6 lines you wrote are 1 lambda now, do you want to replace", and so many other things.

Did you know that if you paste a maven xml dependency coordinate into a .gradle file, it auto-translates it to gradle format before the paste?
I'm more interested in movies that make money through the long tail of DVD sales. Box office numbers have always favoured blockbusters. The long tail content tends to be better, less one-size-fits-all, and allows room for multiple films trying different things, across different genres. That era appears to be over however.
On your tip toes and falling down with a thud is also a qi gong exercise.
What, is critical drinker not high brow enough or something? Feel free to make a better suggestion.
The Chip Titan Whose Life's Work Is at the Center of a Tech Cold War (2023)
Yes, I find it difficult to understand why anyone old enough to remember what British Rail actually was (or capable of e.g. reading Wikipedia, to find out what it was), would like British Rail to be resurrected in anything like the form it had. It feels like pointless nostalgia most of the time; double arrows, rail blue, and jumpers for goalposts.

And like, if one's model for maintaining a system depends on having a sensible government in power, _regardless of which particular political party you think is least competent_ you are going to have a rail system being run incompetently at least half the time. That's also what we got with "privatisation", of course; why would we expect any different?
Detailed study reveals how cells coordinate to heal human wounds
As a Costco member and shareholder, I support this; not because of the topic, but because of management deciding to do something and push back. Strong opinions strongly held are rare these days.
The Cells article: https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S19345909240041...
Time to go back to handing out resumes in person
I don’t have a dog in this fight, but the mao suit was exactly inspired by western wear.

There are more traditional forms or eastern dress.
* Too slow
* Uses too much power

Apple products would absolutely suck if they used ESP32 for their wifi and Bluetooth functionality.
> Light is not an abstraction, a contract is not an abstraction. 10 is not an abstraction, it is an ordinal [1].

It seems to me that all of those things very much are abstractions. They are not the utmost level of abstraction, but they are abstractions!

(Actually "a contract," which at first I thought was the clearest win, I'm now not sure about. On reflection, it seems like a concretization, turning abstract ideas of trust and reliability into concrete conditions under which the contract has or has not been met.)
Just to clarify on the facts, as gathered from reddit threads:

He wasn't trying to protest the dress code or make a scene, it wasn't on his mind at all. He had been out for an appearance with a sponsor during a break, then came back to the venue for the next round, and didn't notice that he was wearing jeans and it didn't cross his mind that that would be a violation.

Then he was told to change, and there wasn't enough time for him to go do that before the upcoming round. He thought he was told he could do it either after that round or for the next day, but then was told he would be excluded from that round, and at that point he said f--- it and withdrew entirely.

The controversy was about exactly how the penalty is imposed. The rule is a fine for the first violation and disqualification for multiple. It wasn't clear if his appearance for the day would count as one violation (so he could just incur the fine and wear correct clothing tomorrow), or if each round would be a separate violation. It also wasn't clear if he could play while in violation or would be excluded from each round until he changed. Precedent from other events wasn't clear for either of these.

The headline of "disqualified" is wrong and did not happen - he chose to withdraw.
Not at all -- if you're something like LazyVim with the stock config, then in a large project it's just <leader>ff to search by filename or <leader>sg to grep across the project (using ripgrep!) or for a symbol search <leader>sS (using symbols provided by the LSP).

I haven't found anything better than Neovim+Lazyvim and switched from ST4 a couple of years ago and never looked back.
It’s called “sticky scroll” in VSCode and Visual Studio [1]. It pins the opening line of a scope to the top when it scrolls out of view and it does it multiple levels deep so you can see the class, function definition, conditionals, etc at the top of the source file when browsing deeply nested code.

[1] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/ide/editor-st...
One of those cases where the act of building the system serves as sufficient qualification in itself, even when the results of the system are mediocre.
Is cover letter important? Do hiring managers/recruiters read those?
This is some next level bs spam. I know job search in IT is difficult these days but this kind of automation will not make it better; if anything, the opposite.

The most recent place where I applied and my earlier workplace both asked for a video recording early during the recruitment process. I guess employers will ask for in person interviews next.
I'm very glad I read the book, but it did lean a little towards the hagiographic side. From the outside it looks like the same high-pressure culture that drives so much innovation at Nvidia also drove their conflict with Apple.
Nice. But as a hiring manager, this is the last thing we want. Flooded with auto submitted Resumes. I posted a job recently and got 100+ resumes in 2 days and 99% were not even remotely close to being a good fit. I struggled to sort through so many Resumes to find someone worth interviewing.

The problem is that with so much noise, good candidates may get ignored or rejected by mistake. And the cycle continues.

I get that the market is bad right now and there are lot of people looking for jobs but auto submissions and flooding job sites wont work. Not for the ones that matter anyway.
agree mostly, although i'd quibble at saying: "So it is not really that they cannot code". i'd certainly say that being able to open an editor and pound out a functioning 20 line program from scratch is a requisite skill for saying you can code.

"Whether or not you want that to be a deal-killer" - exactly. as annoying as these stupid tests are, at least they tell you something. it's surprising how much so.
I struggle with Spotify's anti-album stance as well. I assume it makes them more money because it's easier for them to "guide" you to the songs they make more money on?
I wouldn’t call that “taste”. It’s not a matter of taste which solution is better. If different engineers disagree about which solution to choose, then it’s fundamentally a different assessment of the relevant factors, and not about taste. Or at least, it shouldn’t be the latter.
NPR and PBS stations brace for funding battle
It would probably be cooler seeing people dressed in the pride of their home cultures while competing.

Though I’m sure the old guard would say some dress is too distracting.
Do you think TeXmacs should be included in EmacsConf, even though it is based on neither Emacs nor TeX, but merely inspired by them?
Indeed - I've legitimately considered creating a fake profile at this point to make myself look more Jr with about 10 years of experience. I don't really have much to lose in trying it.
I can’t speak to your experience. If you haven’t been completely inundated with junk applications you’ve discovered a process I never have, and I would love to hear about it. How do you go about hiring at scale?

100s of interviews a month is typical for my org. If you believe that’s hyperbole, I don’t know what to say. Believe as you wish.
I'm not sure I can defend all choices various vendors make, but there are plenty of signals that are helpful. Precise gps coordinates seem unnecessary, but some sort of region based information can help correlate whether there is a particular problem that might happen at far higher rates in hilly terrain or specific humidity levels. Users also often use products in a way that doesn't line up with how the product owner thinke it should be used. Metrics don't replace interviewing people but it might help you craft the right questions. In the case of a Logitech mouse, it might be useful to understand if people are actually using those extra features you've added or maybe it's worth removing in a future version.

The most obvious metric that everyone wants to know is failure or crash rates. After a software update it's always good to know if those rates went up. Those errors may be recoverable, but it's good to try and understand them to improve reliability. Maybe pairing android auto with specific phone models is more problematic, or maybe trying to pair Bluetooth is particularly bad under specific conditions like high thermals in warmer climates. It's pretty difficult to interop testing with all possible parties in all conditions.